"The Destruction of Memory"
FILM SCREENING
about
The war against culture, and the battle to save it.
When
Monday, November 14, 2016
4:30-6:00PM
Where
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s)
Public
details
Opening remarks by archaeologist Jesse Casana, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Directed by Tim Slade, written by Robert Bevan (book) and Tim Slade, 1 hr. 21 min., 2016
Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe. This war against culture is not over - it's been steadily increasing. In Syria and Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’, millennia of culture are being destroyed. The push to protect, salvage and rebuild has moved in step with the destruction.
Legislation and policy have played a role, but heroic individuals have fought back, risking and losing their lives to protect not just other human beings, but our cultural identity - to save the record of who we are.
Based on the book of the same name by Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory tells the whole story - looking not just at the ongoing actions of Daesh (ISIS) and at other contemporary situations, but revealing the decisions of the past that allowed the issue to remain hidden in the shadows for so many years.
Interviewees in the film include the Director-General of UNESCO, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as diverse and distinguished international experts, whose voices combine to address this urgent issue.
This event is co-sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art and the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College.
For more information, contact:
Alison Palizzolo
alison.m.palizzolo@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-2808
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=42291